Saturday, March 6, 2010

Create a MoGraph Urban Jungle – Day 1

In this tutorial Naim Alwan ventures outside of After Effects for a little bit of 3D Matchmoving to create this stunning Urban Jungle effect where vector graphics are perfectly tracked to some city footage. In day 1 you will learn how to do a track using Boujou (although any matchmoving software will work for this) and then import and apply that information in After Effects successfully.

Naim explains:

In this two part tutorial you will learn the workflow for seamlessly integrating live action footage with motion graphics elements.

The first day we are going to be spending a little time familiarizing ourselves with the camera tracking process using Boujou, and the settings we need to get right in order to export an AE camera track.

We will then use the information contained on the nulls to setup the scene. Once the track is imported in AE and scene setup we will shift our focus to Illustrator where we will cover the layer setup we need in order to import an Illustrator file into AE.

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Requirements: 3D Matchmoving software, in this tutorial Naim uses Boujou (download the trial version here) but any matchmoving software will work. A very affordable option is PFHoe (download the trial version here). Other options are Synth-Eyes (download the trial version here) and PFTrack (download the trial version here)
Mocha for AE which ships with After Effects CS4. To use with CS3 you can get Mocha AE here

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